Varian's War: The Forgotten Hero

Varian's War: The Forgotten Hero

Varian's War
🎞️ Movie 121 min GB
โ˜… 6.4 /10 2001

Nothing is stronger than freedom.

After witnessing the treatment of Jews in Nazi territory made him physically sick, cultured American gentleman Varian Fry starts en emergency rescue commission to raise funds and lobby to help intellectuals and artists, especially Jews, escape from Vichy France -where the Pétain government avoid occupation only by utter collaboration- to the US, and for lack of a better volunteer personally sets out in search of them. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt personally overcomes the reticence of the State Department. In Marseille he finds the people he specifically looked for, such as Marc Chagall, already housed by Harry Bingham, a Jewish US consulate official so he starts screening less obvious candidates and examines with Miriam Davenport and a German social democrat they pass for US clergyman Beamish how some can be rescued legally, others via a clandestine route, while colonel Joubert's State Police is at their trace...

Cast

William Hurt
William Hurt
Varian Fry
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Howard Ryshpan
Konditerei Owner
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Carol Shamy
The Owner's Wife
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Harald Winter
First Brownshirt
Susan Almgren
Susan Almgren
Eileen Fry
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Barry Blake
Drury
Noel Burton
Noel Burton
Thompson
Emma Campbell
Emma Campbell
Clifton's Girl
Ian Finlay
Ian Finlay
Ballroom Man 1
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Maitreya Friedman
Ballroom Woman
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Neil Smolar
Composer
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Daniel Jobin
Cinematographer